Drama tragico in five acts by Georg Friedrich Händel. "Teseo" premiered in 1713 at the Queen's Theatre in London. Elaborate costumes and stage effects brought great attention to the performance.

Floor plan of the stage with the four prisms

The stage at the Stuttgart State Opera is characterised by 4 movable elements, large prisms employed in order to organise the space and applied as projection surfaces. In interaction with the projections, rapidly changing spaces are established, conveying a futuristic, totalitarian world sometimes in an abstract, sometimes in a concrete manner.

At the same time Georg Lendorff engages in a bold and absurd play on architectural archetypes, enacting a tour de force through the history of architecture while folding, distorting and inverting spaces.

He consistently applies the individual elements of his production – music, stage design, video projections and choreography – in order to evoke a larger than life entity to such a degree that it reaches far beyond the sum of its components, eventually to attain a condition of elegant overall balance. The individual fields are interwoven with astonishing density at the same time as they demonstrate meticulous balance.

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